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Pressed but Not Crushed1 the UT Saga of Barbara Smith Conrad Pressed but Not Crushed1 The UT Saga of Barbara Smith Conrad 1 Reference to 2 Corinthians 4:8. 1 CAST Last Year we had 61 scenes, and 14 actors. There were 4 males and 10 females. Last year’s cast assumed 24 characters: 7 were male, and 16 female. This proposal envisions 49 scenes. 14 actors again: There could be 5 males, and 9 females. The 2018 cast would assume 20 characters: 9 would be males, 11 females below. There is also a need for2 extras. The Barbara Group (African Americans): 1. Barbara Conrad 2. Father: Conrad Smith 3. Mother: Jerrie Lee Smith 4. Sister: Connie. 5. Cindy Chavez: Good College Friend, Roommate. The Anti Barbara Group: 6. Representative Joe Chapman of Sulphur Springs 7. Mrs. H.E. Howard, Chapman Donor. Moral Guardian. 8. Bo Angstrom. White Troublemaker #1 9. Ron Whitehead White Troublemaker #2 10. White Diva Rival #1 Martha Ann Kelly 11. White Diva Rival #2 Carol Cold 12. Reporter (Female). The University Group 13. Tom Sealy, UT Board of Regents Chair 14. John Silber, Visiting Philosophy Professor 15. Logan Wilson, UT President 16. Arno Nowotny, Progressive Dean 17. H.Y. McCown, “Apocalyptic HY.” Dean of Student Services 18. Edra Gustafson: White Woman Professor who first acts “Strange” Student Activists: 19. Maurie Suttle: Chair of Desegregation Committee 20. Joann Thompson: President of the University Religious Council Ancillary Roles (extras): 21. Ticket Takers TWO. 2 Part I: The Sending Scene 1: The Theme INT. BLACKSCREEN – CONTINUOUS SCREEN shows Bible verse in white text. NARRATOR (unseen) 2 Corinthians 4:8. “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed, perplexed but not driven to despair.” Scene 2: Center Point (Camp County) Home of Barbara Smith Conrad INT. Start in BLACKSCREEN, SCREEN first shows text: Kitchen of Center Point Home of Barbara Conrad in Camp County, 1956. (Miss Sadie’s Room in Carriage House at Jefferson has kitchenette.) FADE IN. CAMERAS take reaction footage of Barbara Conrad and parents for CROSSCUTS. Barbara is sitting. Conrad across from her. Jerrie is working. JERRIE LEE SMITH, MOTHER2 Jerrie is trying unsuccessfully to stuff (“press”) some towels in a small drawer in the kitchen, by rapid re- folding. Her frustration in this endeavor symbolizes her fears. Child, you is not goin to Austin. BARBARA CONRAD Presses3 her hands against her head. At this point, exasperated and demonstrative. Momma, what is you so AFRAID of? JERRIE LEE SMITH, MOTHER Pouting and pleading. We can’t afford it. And . Jerrie retrives newspaper from table. 2 The mother according to Barbara Conrad was a “nervous wreck” the three years that Barbara went to Austin. 3 This is an allusion to the title of the film. 3 have you seen the University of Texas tower cartoon in the Dallas Express?4 Father and Daughter both sit together to look at it, and then Camera does cut-away to the image above: BARBARA Becoming defiant and more sure of herself. Well a Negro5 paper is going to tell us what is wrong at UT, so we kin make it better. Stands up. Walks halfway to mother, gesticulating. 4 The African-American newspaper of Dallas until 1970. 5 This was the proper term used by both blacks and whites to describe blacks in the 1950s. As late as 1964 a black organization at the University Texas, used the adjective, “negro.” I think it is appropriate to use this word which had widespread circulation before 1965. As there is another n____ word, however, with more explosive connotations, I have tried to find a way to delete that term’s use. 4 And I WILL have to walk longer to campus . from a Huston Tillotson6 dorm, since the UT dorms won’t take us in. Starts helping Jerrie with kitchen work, loading dishes into cubboards. Speaking more softly. JERRIE LEE Skeptically And why is that? BARBARA Because its going to take a while for things to change. And I’m fine with it. CONRAD SMITH (FATHER) Still sitting. Mama . the Girl’s right. This is an amazin chance. Our Barbara’s a prodigy, an this is the first negro class ever. We NEED to make the sacrifice . JERRIE LEE Arms akimbo. Eyes darting with anger into Conrad’s. With the words, “run off” she emphasizes the point by going back abruptly to her folding. That’s your solution isn’t it—run off to God knows where, and we’ll be all better for it . Leave Mama alone, workin! Starts folding towels again. The family jes means nothin until it means everythin! Scene 3: Turning the Corner INT. Bedroom, Jerrie Lee sits on the bed. Conrad is coming in from another room. They are already engaged in a heated discussion, and both seem tired/exasperated. Conrad has only an undershirt on top, and pajamba shorts. He walks with a limp. Jerrie Lee is fully dressed JERRIE LEE If you had no disability, your veteran’s check might be helpful. CONRAD SMITH 6 A historically black university in Austin that housed the first African-American students attending the University of Texas. 5 I know what you’re goin to say. JERRIE LEE Shakes finger at him. Becoming fired. Its not jes the expense I’m talkin about . Now listen, you know that our little girl at Prairie View had people who cared. There’s goin to be none of that in Austin; and you—who thinks nothing of leavin us for a few years, are encouragin this. CONRAD SMITH Effort to calm things. Sweetah . He moves beside her sitting on the bed JERRIE LEE Jerrie Lee won’t let him get too close. Lengthens sitting distance. Don’t you “Sweetie” me. CONRAD You and I know too that I HAD to leave you and Queen City for a while. JERRIE LEE Gets up, gets a cigarette, dangles it in her mouth, looks past him. She now assumes the position of an interrogator. Her voice trembles. There’s times you have made my life awful hard, Conrad—can you tell me why? 7 CONRAD SMITH Contritely. I think . that . all folks take pride in somethin. But when they are on the bottom of life, they take pride in things they shouldn’t. JERRIE LEE 7 Jimmy Smith, of Center Point, who we have interviewed now, twice, was the offspring of an illicit union between the father, Conrad, and one of his black students in Queen City Texas. This affair was successfully hushed by Jerrie Lee, and the family for some time. At some point, perhaps in the early 1970s, Barbara and her sister Connie, revealed to Jimmy that they were his half- sisters, and they were close after that. 6 An you couldn’t take pride in me and the kids? CONRAD SMITH You know we weren’t makin much more than rent in Queen City, teachin in the Negro school. I made some bad choices. But would you all have done better if I had been lynched?8 JERRIE LEE Looks without seeing into the distance. CONRAD SMITH So we need to send Barbara off, so she kin take pride in the right things. JERRIE LEE Puts a cigarette in her mouth, and peers off into the distance, as if she is thinking, and even moderating her position. Scene 4: the Progressive University. May 1956. INT. Boardroom. Though it could be a more informal meeting room. Establishment shot, even if stationary, of the real UT Tower. Scene includes: Logan Wilson, UT President, Arno Nowotny, Progressive Dean, H.Y. McCown, “Apocalyptic McCown.” Assistant to President; Maurie Suttle: Chair of Desegregation Committee; Joann Thompson: President of the University Religious Council. WHITE TEXT ON DARKSCREEN University of Texas at Austin, May 1956. Meeting of the University’s Desegregation Committee. 9 DEAN ARNO NOWOTNY 8 According to Barbara’s sister-in-law Rosie Smith, who speaks for Barbara’s brother, Howard, now with dementia--Conrad Smith was threatened by Queen City whites after he formed a black cooperative. Jimmy Smith corroborates the fact that Queen City was a very racist town where blacks had to sit in the back of a Texarkana-bound bus even after Martin Luther King’s victory over segregated bussing in Montgomery. But Jimmy never got to know his true father, Conrad, and did not know the specifics of why Conrad left his family for many years. 9 Nowotny, one of the most vigorous supporters of integration at UT in the 1950s, had a name that indicated his family may have had Jewish-Czech roots. He was born in a log cabin near New Braunfels, Texas in 1899, and graduated from UT with a law degree in 1925 and a Master’s in 1932. He was for many years, the Dean of Student Life at UT, and a popular figurehead of the university. He was known as “shorty” and could be counted on to lead cheers at all major UT sporting events. Notwotny initiated many long- term organizations and events, such as the “Texas Cowboys in 1922,” a unique service-student-alumni group that continues to this day, and yearly Honors Days. He died in 1982. 7 Fingering glasses: Our university’s oil money could secure a globally superior faculty and a vibrant, international student body. Holds his finger out. And then spreads his arms out at the word ‘communism’. But as we live in a day where the iron curtain of communism. 10 Suppresses intellectual liberty So have at home here, a corn-pone curtain . that deprives the freedom of expression to millions. Builds to a crescendo We. cannot follow Old Miss, and Alabama with their small hopes, and racist outlook; We.
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